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Mind-Healing Condensed: 



INSTRUCTION BOOK AND FORMULA. 



By Db. A. J. SWARTS, 

President of Spiritual Science University. 



This Book is a Succinct and Logical Statement of the Mind- 
Healing Science from the Standpoint of 
Intuition and Keason. 



CHICAGO : 

Published by the Author, 
1443 Michigan Ave. 

Revised and Re-Issued, 







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Entered according to Act of Congress in the years 1887 and 1889, by 

A. J. SWARTS, 
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in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



PREFACE. 



THIS condensed statement of Metaphysical Sci- 
ence, with a Formula for Silent Healing, is 
issued in response to many calls throughout the 
land. 

Believing that Reform demands a concise and 
comprehensible statement of this Science, and that an 
intelligent Formula is needed as a guide to the in- 
terested, we issue this summary of the Science in 
full confidence that its principles will be concurred 
in by all who have received the true understanding. 
While the Spiritual Science University claims im- 
portant discoveries, and successful methods of its 
own, it is in accord with the fundamental teachings 
of the most prominent authors of Mental Science or 
Metaphysics. 

The following rules can be successfully used by 
any physician, by Mental and Magnetic Healers, or 
by the afflicted for self-cure, provided that they are 
able to accept the scientific statement of Being, as 
held by the leading writers in this exacting Science 
which refuses to be classed with any other system 
of cure. If the reader would know the ethics and 
claims of this Science in order to decide whether he 
may attempt its demonstration in the cure of dis- 
ease, we will first state the essential doctrines of the 
system, and then let the application, or Formula for 



cure, immediately follow the foundation on which 
w T e profess to stand, as Mental or Spiritual Scien- 
tists. 

This Text Book is a true exposition of the Science 
variously called Mental or Mind Cure, Metaphysics, 
Christian Science, Mind-Healing, or Spiritual Sci- 
ence. It has been earnestly desired that some one 
might condense the scope of authors early in the 
Science to a succinct statement. This work pro- 
fesses to do this, and to establish through logical 
reasoning and by mathematical exactness, the Truth 
or the value of the best discoveries. The author is 
willing to allow the candid, unprejudiced student of 
the Metaphysical system, to say, after a careful 
reading, whether it accords with the leading claims 
of the Science, and to point out any material varia- 
tions from the first authorities in the system. Its 
aim is to harmonize, to unify, to establish and to 
defend all who have espoused the Cause, rather than 
to discriminate or give precedence to any author. 
It is not meant that this work consists of quotations, 
nor of borrowed sentences from anyone, for such 
is not the case. As a statement of the Science and 
as a Formula or guide in healing, it is designed 
chiefly for students, teachers and healers, and to 
such it is offered in the hope that it may prove a 

friend in the time of need. 

The Author. 



MIND-HEALING CONDENSED. 



THE uni instructed mind does not readily accept 
the ethics of this Science as Truth, hence it is 
generally necessary for those who are willing to 
enter this useful field in reform, to receive from a 
good teacher of the Science a course of lessons. 
After having read standard works, and taken a 
course of instruction, those truly interested can and 
will arrive at a practical understanding of the sys- 
tem. If the reader should not be able to accept our 
statements, we still have the satisfaction of know- 
ing that the application of this system has cured 
multitudes of helpless worthy people, and that to-day 
it is doing more to rid humanity of disease than all 
the drugs on earth can do. We have the further 
satisfaction of knowing that it is accepted and sup- 
ported by the best thinkers, by the educated and the 
refined people of the world, and knowing that God 



or Truth honors this Science, we will now epitomize 
its 

DOCTRINES OR ETHICS. 

Christian or Spiritual Science holds that God is 
in no sense a visible, formulated personality; that God 
is not and cannot be local, nor be an expression ever 
to be seen, or comprehended. 

It declares that God is the Supreme and Universal 
Good; Omnipresent, Invisible, Unchangeable; to be 
understood, not as anthropomorphic, not assuming 
any mortal function or shape. It claims that the 
essence or Being of Deity is the Sea of Invisible 
Spirit, as Omnipresent or all-extended as Nature 
entire or the Universe itself. 

It is neither Agnosticism nor Pantheism, for, while 
it denies that God can be visible, it certainly does 
not hold that visible things are God. 

Our Science holds that this universal Sea of Spirit 
is essential Substance or Intelligence, that it is the 
cause or Source of all visible things, hence is saved 
from the unscientific assertion that visible objects are 
"nothing." 

Spirit, the universal and essential Substance, pro- 
jects itself as thoughts or ideas, even as worlds and 
visible objects. All visible things derive existence 
from this great Sea of Deity; they all exist in it and 
it pervades them all, or, as the Bible has it, is the 
" All in All." 



No consideration is independent of Spirit, nor 
can anything possess externeity, outness, or even 
think where it is not, for there is no separate 
Life. No absolute entity belongs to man as a spirit, 
a life, a mind or a soul. The only absolute or Life 
in the universe, is the Infinite Spirit, the fathomless 
wholes the unknowable, or God. 

Neither so-called u matter, 1 ' flesh, blood, bones, nor 
visibility, constitute God or Spiritual Man in 
Science, for God and Spiritual Man are only inter- 
changeable terms for Being, and one is as real, as 
immortal and as extended as the other ; and strictly, 
there is no "other," in the sense of separate entity, 
because all is One. 

Visible or sense objects were first the ideas or 
thoughts of Creative Intelligence, and as ideas they 
are real and eternal. These millions of varying 
ideas could only come out to existence, i. e. to phys- 
ical sight, by reflected phenomena, for everything 
visible is phenomenal. Writers and teachers in our 
Science have not noted sufficiently the distinction 
between Existence and Being, but like theology and 
common thought have treated these as one. Being 
is the real, and always applies to the invisible, either 
to the invisible universal Spirit as God, or to ideas, 
thoughts, etc. Existence should be applied to phys- 
ical or visible objects, hence it is proper to think 
of ideas as being, and of their essence as for ever 



invisible yet immortal or eternal in idea. When to 
these ideas or conceptions Nature gives visible or 
reflected expression, then it is proper to refer to 
such as Existence, or to say that they exist. 

The Latin meaning of the word exist, is to 
emerge, to appear. It is from ex, meaning from 
or out of, and sistere which means to stand ; hence 
to stand out or become visible means to exist. This 
certainly cannot apply to God, nor can it apply to 
Immortal Man, but it does apply to mortal body, 
the earthly, the evolved or manifested man. Those 
who define immortality to mean existence or visible 
expression, have not come up to Spiritual Science 
where true conceptions of the real, of immortality 
or being are found. Existence is the transitory 5 
temporal state, while being is entity, even eternal 
and immortal. Re-birth, or reincarnation, is the 
only method by which personal existence can be 
claimed as our immortality. We may, if we choose, 
take again a body of flesh, and have another, even 
many earth experiences. The Theosophical claims 
for reincarnation, are biblical, scientific, and the 
establishing conceptions of ripest thought. Many 
re-births are occurring in the present period. 

Once in the understanding of the Science of Life, 
you will have solved the problem and will know that 
Immortal Invisible Man is God. Do not confound 
our conception of God in Science with the theolog- 



ical belief of God as consisting of form and visible 
expression like the existing temporal man, for we 
turn from such narrow, yielding beliefs forever. 

It is not scientific to say God's spirit, God's love, 
God's entity, God's life, etc., for God is Spirit, is 
Life, is Love, is Entity. Xo more is it proper 
while speaking of visible man, to sa}~ man's spirit, 
man's entity, or man's life, for mortal phenomenal 
man does not own Spirit, but Spirit possesses the 
earthly man, which is but temporal itself, while these 
are the real, or stronger still, these are God. 

As this Science teaches that flesh, bones and blood 
are not Man; as it teaches that visible body or exist- 
ence is not like Deity, so it rejects all belief in the 
reality of so-called " matter." That which common 
thought names ' ' matter " has no entity, no life, no 
intelligence, and at best all objects beheld by sense 
are siniply reflections, and are no more the real than 
the picture reflected on the canvas is the real. 

A reflection is thrown from the human face or 
form by focalized power upon the sensitized plate 
in the camera, and a negative, or an inverted repre- 
sentation of the face, is obtained by chemical pro- 
cesses. The face has its picture taken, but the pic- 
ture is not the face after all. As the photograph is 
void of sensation, having progressed outward from 
its once invisible sensitive state, so the body and all 



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visible objects are void of sensation, and are only 
reflections or negative expressions of the real. 

Standing before a mirror an optical illusion pre- 
sents itself; you claim to see in it a reflection of that 
which you call your face, your hand, yourself, but 
this is not true, for you are not looking at anything 
in the glass, nor at an image on the chemical pre- 
paration adhering to the other side of the glass. 
You are the omnipresent eye of Spirit looking every 
way, and the reflection you claim to see in the 
mirror is simply the so-called u matter" or the re- 
flection which we call the body. That which is 
claimed by sense to be in the mirror, is just as much 
the real man as the flesh is; neither is the entity, the 
real, for both are reflections; and now having said 
both, we say there are not two, but only one. My 
point is, that while you claim to see your reflection 
in the mirror, it is simply the invisible you between 
the physical you and the mirror, and it is beholding 
your literal body which is the only reflection of the 
original idea. 

That which you seem to behold in the mirror and 
which you call a reflection of yourself, is absolutely 
your own face, and you are looking by deflected 
vision at it only. You are looking from the mirror 
and toward yourself. We mean just what we are 
saying here, and we are now correcting a long 
standing belief or delusion. When you seem to be 



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looking toward the mirror and think that you are 
looking at a reflection of yourself in it, it is a great 
mistake, for you are looking not toward the 
mirror, but from it, and the reflection you behold 
is your fleshly body only. This is absolutely true, 
and to anyone unfolded sufficiently in Spirit, we 
can demonstrate it. 

While you read this think on the optical illusion 
that we are correcting. Please stand before a mir- 
ror. Now touch your right ear. Looking, as you 
believe, toward the mirror, you claim that your right 
ear is opposite the right edge of the glass, but 
such is not true. Holding your finger on your right 
ear as } r ou claim, your error or delusion is corrected 
before the mirror, for you see that it is your left ear 
you are touching. We write this seated before a 
large mirror and the revelation of this essential point 
is rendered certain. James says : " Deceiving your 
own selves like unto a man beholding his natural 
face in a glass, for he beholdeth himself, etc." This 
is oar point, that he is not beholding a reflection of 
himself, but he is actually seeing "himself" There 
is a deception or an illusion here, as in all phenome- 
nal appearances. The vision of sense is crossed and 
inverted, and you " straighticay forget what manner 
of man you are." 

We say that you do not see anything in the glass 
nor on the quicksilver, and is not this statement cor- 



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roct ? Hold your face or hand twelve inches from 
the mirror and the apparition or that which you see, 
seems to be twelve inches beyond the glass. Hold 
a pencil or the end of a cane against the glass and 
that which you call the reflection is the exact dis- 
tance from the glass. Now hold your pencil or a 
book flatwise against or near the glass, and you see 
the space or distance is the same. Step backward 
from the mirror ten feet ; now you see that the 
reflection as you have called it, is not in the mirror 
but has seemed to recede the same distance which 
you have. A little thought will show you that you 
are not looking at a reflection ten feet, nor even one 
foot back of the mirror. If you are beholding an 
apparition beyond the mirror, then you are looking 
through the quicksilver, and through the brick wall 
back of the mirror. The object you see is simply 
yourself. Again, moving your hand from and to- 
ward the mirror, you observe the velocity of the two 
is exactly the same. This is all owing to the fact 
that you are seeing whatever you are as a visible 
expression ; you are not seeing in the mirror a 
reflection of a reflection. You are the invisible idea 
of being reflected or turned outward through evolu- 
tion to existence, and when' you die, as sense or 
mortal mind says, the reflection or existence ceases 
or turns in, disappears from mortal sight through 
involution. It is drawn back to essential Substance 



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or Spirit, hence of course lost to sensuous vision. 
The invisible idea, the thought, the pattern— or as 
theology and philosophy would express it — the spirit 
or spiritual idea is immortal, and forever beyond 
the reach of dissolution. But remember, in the im- 
mortal state it is absolutely invisible to mortal sight, 
yet it may again manifest, and again clothe itself 
with the illusion called flesh, but in its own order, 
viz. , through the procreative or generative principle 
on the physical plane. If this is a fair solution of 
reincarnation, embodiment, or what Jesus meant 
about Elijah and John, you have the benefit but 
may not see the Truth of it unless sufficiently spir- 
itual. 

As the being or ideal entity of the spirit of man 
comes out to identity, to existence, so all fruits, 
flowers, cereals and vegetation come forth from the 
invisible, from Spirit which is the true seed. The 
grass, fruit and leaves to spring next year, are now 
hidden in the invisible realm of causation, the uni- 
versal Sea, Spirit— God. The conceptions, births, 
animal and human, and the evolutions to be, a year 
hence, are delayed now for the involutions or turn- 
ing back of the bodies that will disappear, for action 
and reaction, demand and supply are equal. To 
decay or pass from sight, and then to re-clothe the 
idea with flesh and live another existence on earth, is 
what Jesus meant by, "If I go I will come again." 



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There is then no more reality in the ghost, the 
illusion called flesh, than there is in the mirror re- 
flection, for the flesh is the only reflection. With- 
draw from the mirror and there is no reflection ex- 
cept your body, so when Spirit suspends vitalizing 
activities in the flesh, the reflection, i. e. , the body 
or ghost will soon disappear, but the mental, invis- 
ible or spiritual idea which threw out the reflected 
expression of existence, will remain in entity, in 
immortality or being, and will continue as unending 
as God or the eternal NOW. 

If by the term Spiritual Man, you think of the 
earthly physical body with which physiology chiefly 
deals, you certainly fail to comprehend the higher 
understanding of the term. We neither mean the 
aggregated expression called flesh, nor the carnal 
mind exercising its brief illusions in every part of 
the flesh, for both the flesh and its animal mind 
must cease. It is as improper to hold that intelli- 
gence or Spiritual Man is this reflected expression, 
as it is to hold that God is this expression. Our 
clear Scientists have the key to immortality, while 
no one who believes this reflection, this physical 
illusion, this seeming to be Man, has a good under- 
standing of immortality. 

From the above reasoning in Science the reader 
sees that we deny the being of "matter" so-called. 
Materialism denies that there is Spirit, but holds that 



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" matter" is the basic principle, the one and only 
substance. Spiritual Science holds that there is but 
one substance, yet claims that it is Spirit. Common 
thought holds that there is Spirit and " matter," but 
this position of the past is rapidly yielding to Science 
or better thought. 

The common belief is that God or Spirit was prior 
to "matter," and that ' ' matter " or all visible things 
were produced later, but the difficulty is to tell us 
what "matter" was made of, when Spirit was be- 
fore it or first, and was the only intelligent some 
thing. If it was first, there was then no second ; if 
that which was first was Spirit then it was not 
"matter." Facing the common claim that intelli- 
gence or Spirit was first, will some one who says 
" matter" came forth afterward, tell us what it came 
from when there was not anything but Spirit ? To 
surmount the barrier on which they are stranding, 
they will tell a Scientist that something was made 
from " nothing " ! 

Xo solution of this problem comes up to correct 
understanding but Christian or Spiritual Science. 
It holds as above argued, that thoughts or ideas are 
the real and that these, being products of Spirit and 
in the Infinitude of Being, reflect their shape outward 
to sense sight. None of these visible or sense ob- 
jects are the real, nor are they another substance. 
The real are always the spiritual or invisible ideas. 



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To illustrate: an artist sees, i. e., he thinks into 
idea beautiful statuary before he chisels out the visi- 
ble expressions. The latter can be spoiled, even 
reduced to invisibility, but the spiritual conception 
will never be destroyed. Every visible object that 
exists, first had being in spiritual conception or 
thought. The existence of every visible expression 
is temporary and will cease or disappear, but the 
ideal or spiritual form is eternal and beyond decay. 

Teachers of all ages have used visible objects to 
represent Truth. In more elaborate works we use 
various comparisons; perhaps one here may aid the 
reader toward comprehending the fact that Spirit is 
omnipresent : Think of a large sponge filled with 
water. Let the sponge represent the entire uni- 
verse, and let the water filling it represent the uni- 
versal Sea of Spirit. No atom of the sponge is 
hidden or separate from the water. As you cannot 
separate the water even by thought from any atom 
of the sponge, no more can Spirit be separate from 
any place, not even from the minutest thought or 
invisible atom in all Nature or the universal realm. 

As water fills the interstices between the fine shot 
in a cup, and as light comes through the coarser 
atoms of glass, so Spirit fills the finer, even the in- 
visible spaces of thought or mind. When by the 
law of aggregation these invisible atoms of Spirit 
coalesce into the cruder state, assuming expression, 



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it will do to call such mind, but not " matter." The 
invisible atoms, have simply been focalized or 
cemented by cohesion. It is logical to say that any- 
thing is, in quality, that of which it is formed, and 
as all sense objects are the outer expression of Spirit, 
they are Spirit, *. <?., all the substance that they 
possess is Spirit. 

It is folly for materialists to assert that these in- 
visible atoms, ideas and thoughts are "matter," and 
doubly weak when they define "matter" to be 
u dead, lifeless, inert," for all atoms of Spirit remain 
Spirit even after they manifest, or assume a natural 
form. If visible or sense objects are produced of 
atoms, and the atoms are Spirit, then the forma- 
tions are Spirit and not " matter." 

God being Wisdom and everywhere, no reasoning 
is able to resist the logic or Truth of Science when 
it holds that every atom in the universe is Intelli- 
gence. Spiritual Science now meets Spencer, Tin- 
dall, Huxley, Mill or any other thinker who argues 
that bioplasm and visible formations result from in~ 
visible atoms, yet still denies universal Intelligence 
or Spirit. Spiritual Science challenges opposition 
to explain how matter and nonintelligent atoms 
form themselves in the leaf, the tree, the mineral, 
the flower, the animal, etc. We shall follow and 
press closely while the opposer confronts Truth. 
Will he say that atoms void of intelligence or Spirit 



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place themselves in the myriad symmetrical forms of 
Nature? Or, will thinkers agreeing with this 
Science, see that the sum total of atoms constituting 
universal infinity, the All, are the omnific and all- 
extended Soul, Deity or Sea ? 

To deny that atoms form thoughts, ideas, etc., 
and to deny that they place themselves in forma- 
tions, and then to admit the presence of intelligence 
and order directing and placing the atoms into visi- 
ble manifestations, is virtually to accept our position 
in Science, hence, with one logical conclusion, free 
from chance or error, Spiritual Science makes no 
compromise but asserts with higher claims: "All 
is Spirit, there is no matter." No one, however, in 
this Science needs to say that these reflections are 
" nothing;" we know that Intelligence can not intel- 
ligently use the term " nothing." Some who pro- 
fess to teach the " Science of Being " call these sense 
expressions " nothing," but we think they will see 
better in time. 

While materialism and its allies, such as physiol- 
ogy, materia medica, and believers in a personal 
Deity of limitations and visible shape, are unable to 
maintain their beliefs and theories, which are weighed 
and found wanting before progressive spiritual 
Truth, and while the solution of Being on a material 
plane utterly fails, it is not necessary to amplify this 



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thesis, for these fundamental doctrines in Mental 
Science are established. 

We hold that universal Good is God, and that 
God is universal Good, hence while God is omni- 
present and is Good, we deny the reality of so-called 
evil. There can be no evil anywhere because of the 
omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of 
Good. As phenomenal objects are not the real but 
are the manifestations of the real, of ideas, so all 
chemicalizing mental forces called sin, disease, pain, 
etc. , are illusions and mental states. All affliction, 
pain and sorrow are actual blessings, and no one 
should call them " curses." This deflected state of 
mind is the believer, and it, together with its beliefs, 
is mortal and transitory. When this mortal or 
reflected mind pleads the verity of its claims, it must 
not be accepted as Truth or as reality. 

While we learn from these discoveries that sense 
or mortal sight is illusory, so all students of this 
Science will see, after proper growth, that painful 
or pleasurable emotions are illusions of the sense of 
feeling. While Spiritual Science exposes the illu- 
sion, the ghost called " matter," and proves it to be 
only an idea reflected, so it makes clear the fact that 
the claims of sense touching disease are illusions or 
deceptions, for such are blessings disguised. 

A Mental Healer would respect the honest views 
and feelings of his patient, and for this reason often 



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refuses to converse orally. The student in this 
Science knows the delusive nature of grief or pain, 
and knows it all to be the natural and divine order 
for spiritual growth; that such is actual blessing, 
but to the patient's senses it seems so real and so 
out of order, that he cannot, under these conditions, 
impart Truth by conversation. He should now be- 
gin a mental conversation with the patient's fears 
and feelings. If fully in the Science the healer will 
be able from the first to allay the patient's fears. 
His or her mental poise which always governs phys 
ical deportment, will rule the mind of the patient 
or of attendants without a single verbal request. If 
the healer is calm, confident, and worthy the name 
of a Scientist, he will do all his work by the ' ' sci- 
ence of silence," or rather he will be the passive in- 
strument through which Truth, Spirit will act, and 
while he is quiet, God impresses the fearful ones who 
called him and soon the calm trusting mind of all 
present expects good results. This insures success 
and in this moment of the healer's quiet, scientific 
thought, he secures the benefits of the hope, the faith 
or trust of all present. Right here an equilibrium 
or harmony between Divine energy and human fear 
is obtained. 

Prudence and decorum go far toward effecting 
cure; these are necessary to command respect and 
hope, but it must be remembered that it is 



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SPIRIT OR TRUTH THAT HEALS. 

"Not by might, nor by power, but by Spirit, 
saith the Lord." "The Spirit is Truth." "The 
Truth shall make you free." When the healer is 
silent, the work is removed from person, from in- 
tellect, from words which often harm, and then 
Wisdom, Spirit, Truth does the work. 

The truly spiritual are not ruled by intellect; they 
are neither "giddy, heady nor high-minded," but 
they are meek and trusting. They have overcome 
so that Divine Life or Spirit rules all their ways and 
thoughts. They are not disturbed by intellectual 
freaks, nor by any mortal attacks hurled at them. 
The intellect is the dominant or masculine element; 
it is the "Prince of this world." It comes to the 
meek, but it finds naught in them to stir or make 
war upon. These persons are full of the Spirit of 
Love and harmony, and they are the best healers. 
When great cures are wrought of God through 

O (DO 

them they take no glory to self, in fact they do not 
feel that they have done the work. Healers, here 
is your power; work on quietly, do not fear lest 
others should obtain greater praise, but be glad 
when you hear of their good works. ' 'Forbid them 
not," 

Go in meekness of spirit to the couch of the afflict- 
ed. Do not allow the mortal boaster — the pride of 
mind — to come up in weakness; do not permit the 



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thought, "now those opposers will hear of a great 
cure by me and the people of wealth will come flock- 
ing to me." They will not,, and if you are by the 
couch of pain with such weakness and pride, you 
will soon meet rebuke of God, and the report will 
go out that you utterly failed, and that your visit 
harmed instead of helped the patient. Thus, you 
sought your own glory — you sowed to the flesh, not 
to the Spirit. 

O teachers and healers in this great work! are you 
true ? Are you honest ? Are you feeding the hungry 
temporally and spiritually? or in your boasted se- 
clusion, do you shut up your compassion? How 
then dwelleth Good in you ? Show us the works, 
and we know the worker; the fruit, and we know 
the tree. 

As all healing comes from Spirit through good- 
ness and understanding, so true diagnosis is through 
intuition or spiritual perception. When the mortal 
hides, the spiritual shines; when you are quiet, 
working only mentally and trusting, God is known, 
and then Truth is praised. 

Healer, never tell your patients they have this or 
that disease. Never while visiting patients inquire 
what their disease is, for then you weaken confi- 
dence, for those who hear, conclude that you do not 
understand much, if anything, about it. Their con- 



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ditions, which they call diseases, should be spiritu- 
ally discerned. 

Successful treatments are very simple. It is said 
that it is impossible to lay down any form to be 
followed in this system, and this is almost true. 
One who attempts it needs to be willing to become 
as the Bible expresses it, a " fool ,? for Christ's, i. e. , 
for Truth's sake. It is so unlike any other system, 
that it is ridiculous in the mind of the world. How- 
ever, while early Christianity was to the " Greeks 
foolishness, and to the Jews a stumbling block," 
we hope and work on. 

And now we would impart one example, not for 
others to imitate, but to do homage to the simplicity 
of Truth. "We are called to visit a patient or one in 
pain through any cause whatever. We are now 
seated by the sufferer, and he or another for him is 
telling us the symptoms or the troubles as he sees 
them. This is human nature, and when healers are 
wise they will themselves modestly listen. In this 
way the Spiritual Healer who knows that disease is 
only a mental state of agitated or discordant mind, 
quietly learns all their fears and their beliefs. Hav- 
ing told all, they will expect good results in some 
way, and hence they will be receptive. The healer 
in true understanding:, is mentally treating the case 
while hearing about it, and right here the successful 
work is done at the moment in which they expect, for 



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here is the benefit of their hope and faith. Now 
without verbal reply, the healer may bow to what 
they have said and continue the treatment in the 
simple yet wise principles of the Science. 

"but what is HE SAYING?" 

He knows that it is impossible for the manifested 
flesh to feel, and hence that it is the sensitive mind 
of the patient and friends, and not the flesh that 
feels the pain, therefore he talks to mind. He 
speaks mentally to fear and that is mind, he speaks 
to doubt or grief, and these also are modes of mind. 
He thinks, i. e., he communicates with diseased 
minds as follows, or in a similar manner : " Peace be 
with you," you will soon feel much better. The dis- 
quieting fears and the pains you feel are in the sen- 
suous mind. These are the chemicalizing forces or 
agitations resulting from the conflict between you 
and Spirit, for the Divine Principle is everywhere 
and it is working in you for good. I know you feel 
bad, but it is no curse visited upon you, for actual 
good is to result from this distress. Now you are 
trusting and this is bringing rest. God or Truth is 
working in you as " a consuming fire." Be hopeful 
and trust ; say to your spirit — which is just so much 
of Deity or the Sea of Spirit — "if my will and 
ways cross thine, show me and I will yield my will 
to thee, for thou art right and Good." 



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Your being is that portion of the great Sea which 
we may call your spirit, or so much of God, and this 
oneness can not be broken. It is not the immortal, 
the real, or spirit that feels pain, for this is never 
affected by sin or any harm. Trusting one, see the 
improved disposition, the usefulness, the better and 
kinder life before you because of patience in suffer- 
ing. " Count it all joy," for you shall receive great 
benefit, and will have strength for all your trials. 

While now I am treating you in Divine Science, 
in understanding, even in the silence of thought, I 
see that you have not been understood by your 
friends, and you do not understand yourself. Like 
all others you are full of beliefs; you are the mind 
of sense, and such is not real, but always illusory; 
it is not subject to the ways of God, neither indeed 
ean it be. As it never submits, it is to be over- 
come, and now I am helping you. Spirit shows me 
all your trouble, but your trouble is not }^ou. Truth 
reveals the reflections of mesmeric forces from others 
and they affect you; you are a sensitive identity, 
and, like the sensitized plate, so images or fears are 
east upon you, i. e. , in you as mortal mind. They 
are not images visible to physical sight on your 
flesh, but they are mind-forces in the flesh. Their 
name is legion, and they are of all varieties. Some 
of them, which you remember so keenly, are the 
fears and regrets in your sensitive mind, caused by 



the relations you have been drawn into with others. 
Fear is frightening and tormenting that part of your 
mind which is guilty; this is one of the images or 
rather imaginations. Again, other images, i. e., 
recollections or mental forces, mentagrams, from 
others are invisibly working and annoying your 
sensitive mind; not your spirit, but the mental aura, 
the active mind which seems to be you. In all these 
strange workings and fears I see no disturbance of 
the real, i. <?., of entity, being, or spirit, for these 
are hid with Christ, i. e. , with Life in God. These 
are immortal, invisible and eternal, no harm can 
come to such realities for they are only many words 
which mean but one great thought, viz., Immortal- 
ity, and you are this. You are not your body; you 
are not your fears, not your pain, your doubts, your 
griefs, your disease, no more than you are the 
clothes around your body. These modes or states 
of carnal, i. e., mortal mind are not real, they are 
simply temporary illusions. These would be eternal 
if real; these will end; they are neither entity, in- 
telligence, nor Life; they are not Spirit, but they 
are mortal mind's beliefs, and this mortal mind calls 
itself "matter." It has mortal eyes and they see 
incorrectly, or as through a smoked glass darkly. 
They see the mortal or manifested mind, and the 
illusion in this mind calls flesh the real man, but 
this is not true. 



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And now while my physical eyes are still closed, 
and have been since I began this treatment, and 
while I have not spoken an audible word to your 
fears, I am receiving a full understanding of your 
mentally agitated condition. I am not acting as a 
mortal now, but as Spirit. I do not see even my 
own personality, nor do I see the personal identity 
which belief or error calls you. I need not allow 
my hands to come in contact with your personality, 
nor need my intellectual words address themselves 
to your mortal ear of sense. If I would thus come 
in contact it would be physical dependence, it would 
be error trying to destroy error with itself, and this 
would be the influence of animal mind over animal 
mind, and such is mesmeric and psychologic. 

Now, dear patient, while I am, during this treat- 
ment and spiritual diagnosis, discovering all your 
internal conditions, and understanding that disease 
is not caused by the physical or by an}- visible thing, 
but by the mental forces in every atom of your body 
and by the same kind of forces or mind waves from 
others, while their mind is mingling in your mind, 
I must simply be the instrument, the occasion. My 
spirit, which is Diety, is now curing you and this is 
spiritual healing ; it must not be interrupted by giv- 
ing either your body or your mind one atom of 
drugs, for God is sufficient. 

Your doctor who believes "matter" is the real, 



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takes hold of your pulse and examines your tongue 
and person, and then gives your body, or puts upon 
it dead lifeless things. If he, like the mind healer, 
as Jesus was, could see that your entire trouble is 
troubled mind, he would not pursue his present 
methods which the purity and spirituality of child- 
hood detests so much ; but he would cease all contact 
and material ministration, and would allay your 
fears by his mental power, and tell you there is no 
harm to befall you. His practice injures by telling 
your mortal ears that you have this disease or that, 
and that you "are threatened with a severe fever." 
All this is human mind talking, not to you but to 
your mind ; and now mesmerized, or psychologized 
into terrible beliefs, your fears rapidly increase and 
true enough, the "fever," which is simply the fric- 
tion or agitation of mind, begins and will continue 
until the belief, the fear or the psychologic delusion 
is broken by his change of mind, or by the power of 
another in better understanding. 

You are now treated in this simple, yet wise 
method of Science Healing. Your mind has been 
soothed and rested ; your pain is therefore abated. 
I am communing spiritually with that which was 
your troubled mortal fear, and now its disordered 
and fretted states are ceasing. In the beauty and 
wisdom of this spiritual or Christ-method of healing, 
and in the name of Truth, I say to you : "Awake! 



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thou that sleepest," rouse from the dream in which 
you have long been held, for your dream or belief of 
sickness is not real. Your great error is your belief 
in " matter," and this belief is the prevailing curse, 
and has ever been. It is the delusion of sense. 
Now you are turning from error ; you are turning 
from anger, hate, jealousy, strife, revenge and all 
these disturbing influences wich affect and disease 
the mind and body internally and externally, and 
you are to be entirely cured morally, because spirit- 
ually, or by Truth. Now I leave you in the com- 
forting, saving influence or power of Truth, of Spirit, 
or God, in whose Invisible Being your real entity 
is, and from which it will never be lost. 

AUDIBLY TO THE PATIENT 

the Healer now says : " That is sufficient, perhaps 
for this time." Patients right here often mention 
the experiences felt during treatment, remarking 
variously. Sometimes they say : " While you were 
treating me I felt uncommon forces throughout my 
system : at times a tingling, or a cooling and then a 
warming sensation was vividly experienced." Some 
remark that during treatment all their fears left 
them, and that they ' ' decided to give up all harsh- 
ness toward certain persons and desired to see them 
to apologize for the past." Another will say : "All 
the pain and discomfort have left me. I distinctly 



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realized that the tumor grew less, and the trouble in 
my stomach and joints has all subsided. I feel a 
wonderful improvement, "even the strength and vigor 
of youth. Will this continue, or will I relapse to 
my old troubles?" Another remarks: " While 
being treated, I drew near to God, for my heart par- 
took of the same peace that I experienced when he 
forgave my sins and made me his child. I felt sacred 
communion with the Divine Spirit and I resolved to 
live a better and truer life. I want to go and begin 
work anew in my church and specially to visit and 
comfort the poor. O ! how much of true rest and 
joy of soul fill me this hour. Why really ! I believe 
I am made every whit whole, for I am cured and 
happy." 

All true healers in Science hear these and a multi- 
tude of trusting, joyous and pleasing remarks, and 
they partake of the common joy. Not only in the 
church, the prayer circle, but in the work of charity 
for humanity, and in the healing-room of a true 
Scientist, these noble ones are blessed at times so 
their " cup runneth over." They look at the healer 
and ask : " Is this the system you use to cure every- 
body? Don't you give any drugs at all?" And 
now the Science Healer with the same peace and 
calmness of mind, and with healing assurance, reply- 
ing as God leads, and with respect toward physicians 
says : " You do not feel the need of drugs now, do 



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you ( Would you take drugs now for any one of 
the troubles or diseases you claimed when you called 
on rue ? " The reader may imagine the reply by one 
saved of God, or born anew of the Spirit. This is 
the new religion establishing in human hearts, even 
the religion of Science, saving soul and body, hence 
much superior to poor, lame creeds, and the failing 
theology of to-day. Turn' from it, for it is full of 
error. 

The healer, after treatment and after the various 
remarks and inquiries usually made, explains a few 
thoughts, if time permit, if not, he or she tells the 
patient to cheer up, to trust and call again if he de-< 
sire to. 

Wlien the healer is not pressed to attend upon 
others in waiting, he takes pleasure in answering 
questions and imparting light, and then some facts 
in the Science are given, such as : " The forces you 
felt in the system were the power of scientific 
thought accompanied by the Spirit of Truth. 
Thoughts are things and they are the real forces ; 
also }~ou were communing with Spirit, with Life in- 
visible, with Truth or with God and this power was 
saving, i. e. curing you." 

This healing is the work of Science and hence is 
permanent if you " continue in well doing," but if 
fear, anger, pride, selfishness, jealousy, revenge, 
avarice, malice or any of these modes of mind are 



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continuously indulged, they will, together with the 
mesmeric influences of others mingling in your 
mind, prove the cause of continued trouble, or even 
the development of various conditions called disease. 

The healer after one or two successful treatments 
will find the patient willing to turn from all external 
appliances and from every drug, for no success will 
be obtained while the patient is undecided, and while 
his mind is holding to such. The patient's mind can 
be so treated that he will have no desire for material 
remedies, and the result secured in this way is bet- 
ter than to ask the patient to abandon them. 

" But, 1 ' says one, "some claim that the experi- 
ences of patients during treatment as above related, 
prove that they are not treated in Science but mes- 
merically." No healer will condemn his own work, 
and whoever he may be, he will approve such ex- 
periences and forces of Truth when experienced by 
his own patient. These sensations are common and 
we seriously doubt the utility of treatments that 
never stir the patients consciousness. It is after all 
a fact that some are cured who do not experience 
these emotional vibrations, nor the chemicalizing 
effects that many others feel. 

If the trouble be a broken limb we claim that our 
practitioners who are not surgeons, should first call 
a surgeon to put the bone in place, but mental treat- 
ment can after all prevent the limb from swelling, 



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and will facilitate the work of natural healing. The 
reader must understand that a dislocated or broken 
limb is not classed with disease proper ; at the same 
time such conditions can be handled so unskillf uily 
that they may progress to a diseased state, and, be- 
cause of this trouble, fear may cause development of 
disease elsewhere in the system. 

From the above remarks it will be seen that we 
claim enough reality in the mortal to possess flesh, 
blood and bones, yet as previously stated, these are 
not the real, nor is this visible fleshly appearance 
admitted to be real Man in Spiritual Science. Al- 
though it is man in belief, in anatomy, and to the 
judgment of the senses, this Science takes issue with 
the generally accepted conclusions and does not pro- 
pose to be subject to these failing beliefs, but to 
maintain its higher understanding in Spiritual 
Science. Our claim that God is invisible Spirit, and 
everywhere, not only admits the presence of Divine- 
Life — usually called our spirit — in the space of the- 
mortal body, but we also affirm it, yet deny that 
the real or Spirit consists of any visible shape, for 
every visible sense object is but effect, secondary 
and temporal. The form or shape of these visible 
reflections is not eternal or immortal, but their sub- 
stance, which is Spirit, is eternal and of course 
invisible. 

It is probable that we are not understood here by 



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all, because we refuse to employ the common re- 
marks, viz., " God's Spirit," " man's spirit," "a 
human spirit," etc. Again the terms " our soul," 
" our life," are misleading. We are correcting the 
belief, the error of ancient thought, that physical 
man has a spirit, a soul or a life. While we respect 
a Theologian, a Spiritualist, and a Theosophist, and 
admit that each are equally noble and represent 
much of Truth, still we hold that no one is in Science 
or understanding, on the point at issue, who argues 
separateness or independent entity. No one has a 
life, a spirit, nor a soul independent of the Absolute 
One. By the Absolute One, we mean Nature or the 
Universe entire with special reference to its invisible 
portion ; which invisible portion means the one un- 
broken or Universal Sea of airy expanse. This lat- 
ter is All-extended Spirit ; it is the only God we 
confess. We acknowledge no God as a masculine 
or a feminine person entitled to the appellations He, 
Him, nor She, as applied to gender. As we call the 
Sun He and His, and the moon her because of ex- 
tension and power, without claiming the Sun to be 
a man, a personality, or the moon to be a woman, so 
it is proper enough to say He, Thou, Father, She, 
etc., when addressing the Sea of Invisibility, the 
vast expanse of Spirit. It is God solely because it 
is the invisible side of Nature. It is God, and God 
is it because it is Intelligence, Omnipresence, Power, 



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Source, Principle, Protoplasm, Substance or Spirit. 
It is Infinite or Supreme ; it is Cause or Creator. 

That we now describe is no man; neither Gautama 
Buddha, Jesus, nor the Invisible Christ which means 
not a man, but the Christian Religion. That we 
now describe is the sum total of Invisibility, it is the 
air, ether, gasses or the opposite of cosmos ; it is the 
night and the light of Nature, or if you prefer, it is 
God, but not a God for such would be a limitation. 
God is not a spirit, a life nor anything less than the 
Universe. God is not "three" ; neither Jesus nor 
Christ is God, but that Bible saying, "God is one," 
is true. 

SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE.* 



Thou Great, Eternal, Infinite, the great unbounded Whole, 
Thv body is the Universe, Thy Spirit is its Soul. 
If Thou dost./i# Immensity, if Thou art "All in All," 
If Thou wast here before I was, I am not here at all. 

How could I live outside of Thee? dost Thou fill earth and air? 
There surely is no place for me outside of Everywhere ! 
If Thou art God, and thou dost fill Immensity of space, 
Then I am God, think as you will, or else I have no plaee. 

And if I have no place at all, or if I am not here, 

" Banished" I surely cannot be, for then I'd be somewhere. 

I surely am a part of God, no matter if I'm small, 

And if I am not part of Him, there's no such God at all. 

Agreeing with the science of this inspiration, 
whose author we do not know, we must be honest 
and admit that our highest solution of Being is, that 
no separate spirit is given to any mortal. The One 

*Re-arranged by A. J. Swarts, Ph.D. 



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Spirit or Principle, as extended as the Universe en- 
tire, is the Life or Spirit in everything; the grass, 
the trees, the animal or angel, and hence the spirit 
we call our spirit, is simply the portion of Infinity 
within, not disunited from Spirit the Whole, yet 
outlined by the limitations of our body. Our body 
is the ghost, sent or called forth from Substance or 
the Sea of Spirit. This ghost or seeming reality we 
will give up, and then it will, through involution, 
return to air, to the Invisible or God. Jesus giving 
up the ghost simply meant that the flesh was given 
up. Neither man, disease nor death could take 
Spirit or Life from him, nor from you ; but the 
physical body can be taken back into the invisible 
Sea and lost to sense. At this event you will not go 
away, but will continue what you now are, viz., so 
much of the one Whole or God. You will never be 
limited and you are not now. Your being is now 
the Infinite and is Omnipresence, for you are God ; 
you are immortal and invisible. I do not say that 
your body or your ghost is God, but I say that you 
are. I and my Father are One, but. my body and 
the Father are not One. When my body of flesh 
disintegrates or resolves to invisibility, then it and 
the Father will be One. It will be lost to sense, but 
consciousness will never cease. Consciousness, mem- 
ory, intelligence, or that you call your spirit, will 
remain invisible and enjoy the bliss, the rest from 



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mortal strife; and further, it will be very active. It 
will not depart but will remain to mingle in the mind 
of others here, for, c ' I will never leave nor forsake 
you," but will be with you. After you have had 
rest enough and you cease to dread the experiences 
of your former earth life, you "will come again," 
i. e. , you will come out from the protoplasmic atoms 
which will be floating like invisible air. The gener- 
ative principle of Spirit is dual or polar, i. e. , it is 
masculine and feminine. When this principle de- 
cides to come out to existence, it is the begetting in 
Spirit, and now it assumes bioplasm in the highest 
expression of existence, and that is in human bodies. 
In these it progresses to the generative plane of 
physical or animated life, and this conception or 
begetting by the flesh is simply the continuation or 
consummation of that which was begun in Spirit. 
Through this process of evolution, not from animals 
quadrumanous, but from Spirit through physical 
media, you will reincarnate again or make a new 
body, which body will be but a ghost full of aches, 
pains and sensations. Spirit will know that the 
fleshly ghost is not the real, but the flesh, or plane 
of sense, will judge it to be the real. To die then 
is not to die, for there is no death. We will keep 
the body which we have made as long as we can, 
then we will let it go back for an indefinite period 
into Being, but after a time we will take another 



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body and make it finer and better, for we will have 
learned much more. Heaven, or spirit world, at 
a distance, is too misleading; it implies separate- 
ness. To conjecture about a God, either absent, 
distinct or separate from your own Life or spirit, 
is speculation, for you are the Highest, and it is im- 
peachable idolatry to worship a limitation when you 
are the Whole. 

THE AVERAGE TIME FOR TREATMENT 
PROPER, 

i. e. , for the silent part of the work is about fifteen 
minutes. It is very evident, however, that the best 
work of the treatment may occur during the first 
two or three minutes of this time. 

Although an idea may be obtained from the above 
formula, neither the healer nor any other should 
conclude that we follow it as a rule, neither is it 
necessary for healers to commit and follow any 
form. One clearly inducted into the Science will 
always be able to conduct a treatment properly. 
We vary more or less in each case. It would not 
seem wise to use the same words at each treatment 
of the same person. We are governed by the case 
in hand, and so every healer must be. 

Our formula herein gives a fair idea, however, 
for the treatment of every disease known, i. e., a 
Mental Healer treats all kinds of disease with the 



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same general methods, merely adapting his thoughts 
to the case. 

It is not necessary to argue orally nor mentally 
with the patient in an attempt to convince him that 
he feels no pain, for to the plane of sense the pain 
is real, although to Truth or understanding it is not 
real. Nor is it attended with the best results to 
deny his claims when he tells you he has this or 
that disease. It is true that the healer knows the 
delusive and the unreal nature of all the claims of 
earthly mind, but we are now on a question of ex- 
pediency— "He that winneth souls is wise." Jesus 
was accustomed to treat the beliefs and fears of his 
patients with kindly consideration, and he usually 
undertook their cure. There is no evidence that 
he cured all, nor a fourth of those whose cure he 
undertook. It was ruiable then, and is now, to re- 
port the cures but not the failures. 

The Science healer never needs to admit the reali- 
ty of disease, and it is unwise for him ever to make 
physical examination. If a patient comes with any 
external affliction it hinders the work if the healer 
examines it. Simply proceed with the understand- 
ing of Science and know that it is only a mental 
condition you have to deal with. Find the mental 
cause, the sin, the deed, or the fear that produced 
it; remove this by mental treatment only, then you 
permanently cure your patient. Proceed in the same 



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wa}', even when the mind has distorted the physical. 

Remember, student, that your teacher, and all the 
authors in the Metaphysical system, ignore every 
form of physical treatment, and claim that we do 
not treat the physical, the body of the patient, for 
certainly we neither use an atom of drugs nor any 
appliance whatever. Science healing never operates 
on a patient in any material manner. It forbids 
literal contact, and from first to last our system 
teaches that God, Truth, the one and only Spirit or 
omnipresent Life does the work of Spiritual Heal- 
ing. Spirits, influences, etc., are simply the active 
workings of the Absolute One, or God. It can be 
strongly proven in any court, East or West, that 
our healers do not profess to do the work of curing, 
but that Truth the Supreme and Invisible does the 
work. 

This work of introducing new views of religious 
or spiritual Truth is our religion, even our most 
sacred right, and guaranteed to every citizen by the 
Constitution of the United States. No law has yet 
been enacted by any state that can, before a proper 
court, prevent the work of healing in the manner it 
is wrought through this Science. 

Our federal Constitution says that no state shall 
enact laws that will abridge the rights or immunities 
of the citizens. Under the religious freedom of our 
land we shall obey God and conscience by teaching 



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Truth and the purer ways of living, and thereby we 
shall continue to treat disease mentally, or to be the 
instruments through whom God may cure any 
afflicted person. If you employ the term ' ' magnet- 
ism" in healing, they can now compel such healers in 
one or two states to procure license. 

Usually the healer should sit two or three feet 
from the patient. Some direct the healer to sit with 
his back to the patient, but no good reason can be 
given justifying this. It is more natural to sit so 
that you can see your patient's facial expression 
when you speak to him. Why turn your back on 
anyone ? 

Neither the patient nor the healer should, during 
treatment, sit with indifferent manner gazing around, 
but both should be earnestly attentive. The patient 
should be in a passive, impressible and receptive 
state, with eyes closed to shut from his mind exter- 
nal things. Also, an earnest healer will sit with eyes 
closed during the silent treatment and will thus do 
better work. 

The first visit usually requires the most time, for 
the healer is hearing the case or instructing the 
patient or friends. Some patients are cured by 
hearing the Science, and they insist upon being told 
all about it. Such should be kindly enlightened. 
Others do not care to hear about the system, but 
simply wish treatment. Cures are more permanent 



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where the patients receive some of the principles. 

If the healer can have the confidence of the family 
he will succeed much better. If he is in the clear 
rules of the Science he will usually be able to com- 
mand the confidence and respect of all. 

Neither the patient nor healer should talk much 
about the diseases, nor should either mention the 
names of the diseases after the first visit. If the 
patient or any afflicted person would get well, they 
must cease to talk about their troubles or disease. 

Afflicted one, teach yourself to forget disease by 
cultivating indifference toward it. Do not look 
upon it as real or as having any entity or power of 
its own. Dictate terms to disease and assume that 
you are its master. 

Think kindly of all people, and dwell much upon 
pleasant, cheering themes. Forgive all unkindness. 
Overcome evil with good. Resolve upon patience. 
Affirm often every day, "I will not hold to disease; 
I will get well, not to escape pain, but to share the 
burdens of others." Do not talk of disease to any- 
one. When you tell your healer, or any other 
friend, of your worse conditions, you lead him to 
increase them through the fixed law of reflex action. 
In this you receive harmful results by compelling 
his psychologic thoughts, charged with your own 
disclosures and fears, to act injuriously upon every 
part of your system. When his thoughts return 



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your own words, " worse," "terrible," "cannot get 
well," etc., back into your disordered mind, every 
member of your body shares the harm. This is a 
mental law understood by Scientists. You put our 
system on trial before the public, therefore, we 
must insist upon your faithful efforts to keep the 
rules. Truth or Science saves only through obedi- 
ence, while fear, error, disregard or ignorance are 
the mind-forces that slay you. Your understanding 
of Science as Divine Truth, destroys these evils, 
devils. 

Often, when three or four remark on the same 
day to a sensitive person, "You look badly, pale, 
and sick," it causes severe sickness, and even greater 
harm. All physicians know this. But when as 
many chance in a day to remark to an afflicted per- 
son, "You look so much better! you will surely get 
well!" it often causes a speedy cure. These re- 
marks act upon the mind of the patient; their minds 
react upon their bodies, and their system, which is 
both mental and physical, fails or improves, as the 
result of what was said. Spiritual Science is the 
understanding of these mental laws, and is much 
more of untold worth. Abstain from drugs, and 
from conversing with those who oppose Mind-Heal- 
ing. While the patient does as above, the Healer 
holds him in the further understanding of Science, 



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while Truth unclasps his fears, his beliefs or diseases, 
and brings the desired result. 

It is a fact well established that persons contract 
disease simply by hearing about it. Erroneous be- 
lief has often caused the state called death, and per- 
sons have died under the delusion of fear. It is 
quite easy to bleed a person to death without draw- 
ing a drop of blood. A little ingenuity will do the 
fatal work if the subject is blinded, for slightly 
touching the skin with a common toothpick will do 
the work, if warm water is dripped upon the place 
and is heard running into a vessel beneath. Many 
pointed cases can be cited, but the reader has often 
heard these facts. 

It is well known that when some sudden fright or 
danger threatens, invalids, disabled for years, forget 
all pain, rise and walk, or even run. This fact of 
diverting the mind variously and calling the afflicted 
one's attention to other and interesting objects, so 
that for some time he is unconscious of any suffer- 
ing, goes far toward establishing the claims of Sci- 
ence that pain is neither a curse nor a reality, but 
that its evil seeming is imaginary. Real to sense, 
but not to Wisdom. 

As the toothache is often checked mentally while 
on the way to the dentist, simply by assuring one's 
self that the tooth is soon to be out and pain will 
cease; and as the attention of an afflicted or crying 



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child can be diverted until it forgets its grief, so the 
Mental Healer is able to call the mind of the patient 
from his troubles, and can so enable him to hold in 
mind the image of perfect health that disease yields 
to the greater force brought against it. These treat- 
ments continued a reasonable time, the cure is cer- 
tain. As doctors are required to continue their 
drugs and visits, it is reasonable to suppose that the 
mental process needs some time. 

This is the only system with which to treat, suc- 
cessfully, the insane. Insanity is an unbalanced con- 
dition of mind. It, like other kinds of disease, is of 
mental origin, for if caused by loss of friends or 
property, by religious interest, by disappointment 
in love or other things, it is simply a disturbed state 
of mind; the effect of a greater shock than the 
mental strength of the subject can endure. No one 
should attend such persons who believes them to be 
hopelessly insane. Our method of treatment is 
most successfully adapted to these cases. 

The reason that we have not enumerated the kinds 
of disease cured by Mental Science, is that we all 
claim there is no limit to the kinds or classes of 
disease it cures, but every kind known to the medical 
schools is constantly being cured under this method. 
Every case, however, is not cured, but a far greater 
per cent, of patients are cured by this system than 
by drugs. Drugs are entirely foreign to the first 



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principles of cure. When benefit or cure comes 
through using them, it is all owing to the Divine or 
spiritual forces operating upon the mind of the 
physician, the patient, and the attendants. 

Taking the drug stimulates and encourages the 
mind, and when relief is obtained through the use of 
these material agencies, it is because the treatment 
is in the line of all the mental force of the commu- 
nity, pharmacy, the medical schools, the patient and 
friends. Every claim for drugs, and every skillful 
move is the action of mind, of intelligence, and 
there is a sense in which every drug given is a men- 
tal ministration. They are directed by Mind and 
the doctor cannot deny that Mind directs his work. 
Now we are ready to say that the mind of no phar- 
macist or physician can prepare a remedy superior 
to mind when rightly directed. 

On the same ground that certain drugs accompan- 
ied as above with the volume of mind force, with 
belief and expectation, will cure because Mind 
claims it, so other drugs called poisons will kill 
through the same reasons, viz., the volume of mind 
all along the line claims it, and mind does the deed. 
When a doctor tells us that a person taking poison 
accidentally, will die, even though he did not know 
what it was, and concludes that he has vanquished 
the Mind Healer, we say to him: Nay, sir, you have 
simply inclined us to ask you: Does the patient al- 



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ways know the nature or kind of drugs you give to 
cure t While then he does not know the drugs de- 
signed to cure, but still they cure him, as belief or 
mind says, so he may not know the poison drug and 
yet it may kill him, but the cause of both results we 
have stated above. The cause of either the curing 
or the poisoning with drugs is mental and not 
physical. 

The chief cause of any result is mental, spiritual, 
or invisible. While effect is not always visible, it is 
found only in the visible. This rule is a fixed law, 
and, being true, it should settle at once the meta- 
physical claim that cause is mental or spiritual, and 
being thus, it is not physical. Drugs have no curative 
property in them ; they stimulate mind and thus a 
mental force accompanies them, and this force is the 
cause of whatever result is experienced, whether 
good or bad. The difference then between the drug 
physician and the Mind physician is, that the former 
reaches results indirectly, while the latter reaches 
them directly ; this proves that the Principle of cure 
in Science is the invisible, and it shows that medical 
doctors are not dealing with first principles, but are 
using the secondary, viz. , drugs, or effect with which 
to remove effect. 

Another reason why the drug doctor is not lessen- 
ing mortality is owing to his unwise practice of 
naming the diseases. He will continue to do so 



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until he is able to see more correctly, and to learn 
both the cause and cure of disease as understood by 
the clear Metaphysical Scientist. 

The chemicalizing state of the patient is an im- 
portant part of the ethics of this Science, and needs 
to be understood by the healer and the patient. 
This condition is a fermentation or effervescence 
working in the system caused by the friction of in- 
ternal forces. Agitated modes of mind are often 
stirred by the vital or spiritual forces in contact. 
For physical and mental development, and for con- 
stant restoration of the body, there are in every 
human organism many vitalizing invisible forces, 
and these seem to be in conflict. In other words, 
the power of Spirit is working in us to will and to 
do. This omnipresent positive principle is op- 
posed by mortal carnal mind, which is not subject 
to the Good. This is all readily understood when 
one comprehends the fact that God means the in- 
visible Spirit in everything. Being in all things 
and everywhere, it is working in the human mind 
throughout the entire body. "Know ye not that 
your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is 
in you?" This is the true doctrine that God even 
now is our only life. The Holy Spirit within 
simply means a portion of the Universal Spirit ; it 
is the Life within the flesh, and we may call it our 
spirit or the Holy Spirit, but only one is meant. 



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Presence of the Divine and the seemingly present 
evil is the working or law Paul named : "I find then 
a law that when I would do good, evil is present 
with me." If God were a visible personality, as 
many theologians and a few professed scientists 
hold, he could neither be in us nor be our Life. 

The order of this apparent conflict is misunder- 
stood and it is called disease, sin, pain, etc. During 
treatment this fermentation is increased by the 
power of Truth destroying belief or error. Alkalies 
mixed with acids cause fermentation or a chemical- 
izing which brings'sweetness or harmony, so Truth, 
Spirit, is working in the modes of mind called sin, 
sickness, error, and is changing, saving, i. e. , curing, 
begetting by the power of Spirit unto harmony. 
When the patient seems to be worse or to have in- 
creasing distress, the healer in this system knows it 
is all in order, and that cure is progressing. In this 
experience the healer treats the fears of the patient, 
and soon quiet and rest are realized. Chemicaliza- 
tion often proves the surest evidence that old con- 
ditions are breaking up, and that the patient is 
progressing toward perfect health. 

The Mental or true Spiritual Healer will never 
enter into agreement with disease and death and 
thus be " sold under sin." He acts with higher un- 
derstanding and holds in his mental or spiritual 
grasp the "keys of death and hell." He it is who 



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"leads captivity captive," and gives good to men. 
The chains that bound the race were their beliefs in 
"matter," but these chains are breaking, light is 
dispersing darkness, and soon mankind will be 
emancipated, made free from the laws of sin and 
death. 

Idolatry, or belief in a personal God sitting some- 
where and waiting till human bodies or even spirits 
fly away from this world to visit him, is retiring to 
the shades, soon to be forgotten by all except those 
who have discovered that the only personal God, or 
personal Satan, is simply the physical man. This 
earthly man is the only personality. 

Christian theologians, failing to understand the 
meaning of their Master about going to the Father, 
and accepting the traditional claim that he ascended 
bodily and left this world, have for eighteen hun- 
dred years taught that the departed are spirits and 
constantly going to a distant material place. They 
have taught happiness, recognition, spirit-commun- 
ion, playing on harps, etc., way yonder! The 
ecstatic fruition of this imagery and hope has been 
the Christian's joy for centuries. God has raised up 
an innumerable host, who realize in spiritual philos- 
ophy the fulfillment of all the above and much more 
of rapture. The difference is, theology promises 
yet never fulfills, but philosophy garners the harvest. 
It was all right while theology had the recognitions 



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in its mind, and to occur in another world; but 
reaction, descent or discovery finds the fulfillment 
here where mortals need encouragement. The sealed 
book, Revelation, promised the descent of the entire 
retinue, even God, here. Science crowns us by 
finding us in God and God in us ; such light out- 
shines the Sun. God in the body, i. e., in the 
temple, is the spiritual light that needs no candle. 

As certainly as mankind are learning that the 
visible is not Man, so surely are they deserting 
belief in or about a personal God or a personal 
devil other than physical man. And as certainly as 
these worn-out theological beliefs are failing, going, 
dying, so certain it is that the idolatry of drug 
worship must go. As that which was thought to 
have virtue or bottom is proving to be bottomless — 
not able even to amount to a " bottomless pit" — so 
/Science, which is Truth, the u second coming," the 
Highest, is binding hand and foot this deceiver, this 
■" strong man armed," this error or " matter" and 
is casting it into disfavor or " outer darkness." Are 
not the "gnashings of teeth" heard to-day? Can 
any be so blind as not to see the fulfillment of all 
that wonderful inspiration? 

The bottom, or the supposed virtue of drugs, is 
falling out and the profession feels the sands on 
which it has built slipping rapidly away. The 
x 'tooth of time" gnawing at the props supporting 



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ultra medical error, is spreading alarm because of 
trembling from base to dome of the turreted struc- 
ture rising heavenward on crumbling base and soon 
to fall before the Spartan chivalry of the Sons and 
Daughters of God, for Truth, Reform, bears aloft 
the watch-words, the insignia on every Spiritual 
Science banner, "ALL IS SPIRIT;" "ALL IS 
GOOD." 

On this foundation the spiritual temple, forming 
without hands, is being constructed, and long after 
opposing voices are silent, the Truth which first 
spoke through mortals the great rallying cry, "All. 
is Spirit," will be praised and honored as Science, 
as the Word or Divine Logos. 

Guns are playing, and the lion or masculine power 
— intellect and matter — are now demanding the 
defeat, the fall of Mind-Healing insignia. A United 
States citizen was bound to a stake in Cuba, while 
before him stood the death-men with flashing guns, 
when another American rushed in, wound the 
United States flag around and around the threatened 
one, from head to foot, and then feeling the chivalry 
of his mighty nation afar, held his hand aloft and 
said: "Shoot that man through that flag if you 
dare!" As those gunners were soon removed, so 
palsied will grow the arm of vengeance raised 
against these banners of spiritual liberty, while be- 
hind them we hear the voice of God, and while all 



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around the spiritual and heavenly artillery covers 
them and their bearers with authority, with power, 
before which "matter" and the idolatrous drug-king 
will fall) while Truth, Peace. Reform, Science, will 
wrest the kingdom from error and then bind the 
wounds with its own conquering Love. 

We demand, during the many attempts by Allo- 
pathy in legislative halls, the inherent rights secured 
to all citizens of our land, to use the system of cure 
they wish when sickness invades their homes. Re- 
form will meet usurpers at every turn, for it main- 
tains that "All modes of healing the sick shall be 
free and on a standing of equality before the law. 
subject alike to the same rewards and penalties." 
"When the "old school" practitioners assume to over- 
throw this Heaven-commissioned system of Mind- 
Healing Science, they may not meet the success 
they seek, for our appeal is to the people, to Justice, 
and we will win under the flashing artillery of the 
skies. 

There are fine and skillful physicians in the Allo- 
pathic ranks, but this school in its orthodox assump- 
tion has grown so careless, that the people over the 
civilized world fear it because of its heavy and dan- 
gerous drugs in the hands of so many thousand 
quacks, who. after all, know but little of the laws 
of cure. Their blunders when experimenting with 



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human life, owing to their ignorance, are culpable in 
the highest degree. 

The best authorities in the Allopathic ranks con- 
demn their own system and its blunderers in stronger 
language than we employ. From their own leading 
journals in Europe and America, and by their chief 
lights in medical literature Ave gather facts Avhich 
challenge caution. Dr. Forbes, of the British and 
Foreign Medical Quarterly, and Dr. James John- 
son, of the British Medical Chirurgical Review — 
the most eminent medical reviews in the world — 
strongly denounce the carelessness of their own 
school. Dr. Johnson, of the latter named journal r 
says: U I declare as my conscientious conviction, 
founded on long experience and reflection, that if 
there was not a single physician, surgeon, chemist, 
apothecary, druggist, nor drug on the face of the 
earth, there would be less sickness and less mortal- 
ity than now prevails." 

Sir Astley Cooper, the leading surgeon of the 
age, Magendie, the greatest physiologist of France, 
Mott and Parker, the two most eminent physicians 
of New York, Prof. Bigelow and Prof. John Ware, 
of Boston, the illustrious Benjamin Rush, John 
Mason Good, Abernathy, of London, and many 
others of the most eminent physicians of the world, 
are on record against the reckless practice in Allo- 
pathic ranks. 



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Dr. Jamison, of Edinburgh, says: "Nine times 
out of ten our miscalled remedies are absolutely in- 
jurious to our patients suffering under diseases of 
whose real character and cause we are most culpably 
ignorant." 

Dr. Kamage, member of the Royal College of 
Physicians, London, said: "It cannot be denied 
that the present s}^stem of medicine is a burning re- 
proach to its professors. How rarely do our medi- 
cines do good! How often do they make our patients 
really worse! I fearlessly assert that in most cases 
the sufferer would be safer without a physician than 
with one. I have seen enough of the malpractice 
of my professional brethren to warrant the strong 
language I employ." 

To examine the reports of our National Medical 
Association, in which the acme of perfection should 
eclipse the brightest luminary of Europe or the 
Orient, we find enough to make an angel blush with 
shame, and to cause every legislative body to bar 
its doors against the first reading of any bill whose 
object is to throttle reform, and to forbid honest 
attempts to improve upon the blundering system so 
adjudged by its own lights. 

Dr. Gihon, medical director of the United States 
Navy, and President of the Naval Academy, made 
a wonderfully honest report to the National Medical 
Association, when it met at Cleveland. He says 



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that of 1142 practicing graduates of regular medical 
colleges, 700 were too ignorant to pass the Naval 
Examining Board. He says: "Many of these have 
doubtless learned something of the art they began 
to practice in the dark, yet most of them have only 
learned to see as the blind see, and at what a fearful 
cost of human life!" 

If the above, and a million other reproachful re- 
marks by medical authorities, seem uncharitable, it 
ma}^ be remembered that they are not uttered by 
the Healers and writers in this highest understand- 
ing of Bible or Spirit healing. 

But Allopathy is against the Bible methods of 
cure, for it would ignore and forever cut off as un- 
lawful the system which Jesus and the apostles 
practiced to cure the most malignant forms of dis- 
ease, for their system was purely spiritual, or by 
mind power, Avhich often consisted of audible word 
and command only, for they never wrote prescrip- 
tions nor administered drugs. Nor would this 
iron-clad rule perpetuate or respect the command of 
Jesus, which can only apply to spiritual advisers and 
healers: u Go ye into all the world, heal the sick, 
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils." 
Not only would this spirit shut out the apostolic or 
mental treatment, but if Jesus could come again 
among us and treat disease by his former method, 
he would be tried and convicted by such law, else 



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he would be obliged to turn away from God's 
method of cure to study and conform to the profes- 
sion by obtaining a diploma from a medical college 
as license to administer drugs for the relief and 
cure of the afflicted. 

NO OTHER SYSTEM 

of cure educates the patient and makes him his own 
physician. This system exposes the illusive char- 
acter of disease, and teaches its friends to cure 
themselves and their families. It is to be honored 
then as an educator in the highest interests of life. 
It is a fact that heads of families employing the 
Mental Healer, are not called upon to meet the 
usual large bills of physicians. It is also true that 
Science Healers rarely ever lose a patient, and yet 
they are called upon constantly to take the cases 
given up by the doctors as ''incurable". 

This is the most successful practice known for 
children and they are easily cured by it. If an in- 
fant is sick it can be treated directly and through 
the mind of its mother. To allay the mother's fears 
is often all that is necessary. 

A Science Healer never requires a patient to diet 
in any disease. He knows that if the flesh is lifeless 
it cannot feel, and that food has no power to harm. 
Whenever harm results after food is eaten, it is all 
owing to mind, hence treat the mind only, and of 



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course with mind. It is not difficult to cure the 
worst cases of dyspepsia, so-called, while directing 
the patient to eat whatever he choose. When the 
science of "mind currents," "brain waves," thought- 
transference, or, better still, Mentagraphing, is 
understood, it will be known that mind, fear, men- 
tal influences, etc., are the causes. 

There is enough intelligence and refinement en- 
gaged in this system to command highest respect. 
Ministers, bishops, lawyers, doctors, congressmen, 
editors, and all classes are being cured by it. 

Reader, call upon any healer in this Science for 
an}' affliction or trouble, remembering that it is 
your mind only that can feel trouble or sickness. 
Be assured, by one who cares for you, that you 
will endorse your trial of this system of cure. 
Will it not be wise to try before you condemn or 
even judge it? 

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE INVOCATION. 

Infinite and Eternal One, immortal, invisible, im- 
mutable; hence in Thy being hidden forever from 
veiled or mortal sight, Thou art God. Omnific, 
Omnipresent Creator, Source, the only Life or 
Spirit, for in Thy character Thou art commensu- 
rate with All-extended Being. As Thou art every- 
where, no limit or place knows Thee, no world or 
city of Heaven claims Thy presence or beholds Thy 



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form, and yet Thou art never absent from the mi- 
nutest point in all Thy universal realm, for Nature, 
or the Universe in the unity of Being interchanges 
its names only with Thee. No limit, no emanation, 
no manifestation, no object or idea, ever shares any- 
separate part of Thee, for Thou art absolutely One. 

Supreme Wisdom, Supreme Power, Supreme and 
only One, there is no evil, no disease, no death, no 
Satan, or possible source for anything opposing or 
contrary to Thee, because Thou art omnipresent, 
and Good. 

But wonderful and Infinite One, in the perfec- 
tion and unity of Thy being, and for knowledge all 
Thine own, there are in Thy reflected and finite 
mind seeming evils and works which seem the oppo- 
site of Good. To this mind which is not Thee and 
yet is in Thy Being, this realm of apparent evil, 
whilst thou art working in it to prove Thyself the 
only reality of Life and power, there seems to be 
unrest and pain, and this mind believes or dreams 
on thus amid all the chemicalizing forces of Thy 
workings in it while willing and doing Thy pleas- 
ure, until in the dream it has called "death," so like 
a vapor, a nonentity, it is swallowed up in Life, in 
immortality. 

While this agitated, carnal minji is being thus 
renewed, and feels these sensible emotions, it names 
them pleasures, sorrows, pain and sin. As fear, 



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distrust or hiding mind we now turn, we now see 
that all is Good. We accept the Worker and the 
works, and becoming one with Thee we cease to be- 
lieve in evil. Confessing the natural order of our 
disordered state while Thou art working thus in 
mortal sense, or in Thy reflected mind, which we 
call ours, we see there is no disease, no pain, no 
death to Life; and lost here to belief, we find union 
with God, for in the realm of Life there is naught 
but Infinity itself. 

Here we renounce our early beliefs that we were 
conceived in sin and born of an evil source, or that 
the race ever fell to a depraved state. It so dishon- 
ors Thy character to believe that evil, or the myth 
called Satan ever did or could use influence or power 
contrary to Thy wisdom, we turn from it as born of 
superstition and as a belief in death. We now ac- 
cept the blessings called "evil," such as grief, pain 
and disease, for these are visitations of Thy goodness 
toward us. We are neither sick nor alienated from 
Thee as invisible Truth, the invisible God, but in 
the understanding of our renewed nature and from 
our exalted state we accept these ennobling visita- 
tions, even as the means or transforming power by 
which the carnal dies daily, and by which we lose 
the "image of the earthy" and take on the "image 
of the heavenly." 

As clay, make and mould us to Thy liking. In 



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Thy wisdom choose the surest methods to advance 
us higher, and if these be loss of fame, loss of 
friends, loss of home and support, loss of health, 
society and pleasures of sense, we submit. TTe ac- 
cept all these and more, for while we pass these 
ordeals and drink these cups we see through the lens 
of mortal woes, the hand, the smile, the spiritual 
anointing, and now in blessings so divine ''our cup 
runneth over." There is no sting, no sin, no death, 
for the understanding of this inverted picture is the 
richest blessing of all. 

Thy invisible working in this reflected mind, is, 
from henceforth to be regarded simply as the trans- 
forming power, the ' 'consuming fire*' by which we 
are "changed from glory to glory by the Spirit. 
God." Included in Thy Being we can never be 
banished, never punished by Thee. In Thy infinite 
wisdom and goodness no anger will ever come from 
Thee. In this Science or acquaintance with Thee, 
that which we feared is turned to blessings so 
divine, that all is health, joy, peace, tranquility and 
calm, and for this rest, this crowning joy we confess 
Thee, the Supreme. 

In Thy Xame. 



QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED 

BY ABSENT STUDENTS WHO DESIRE 

TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF 

A LEGAL DIPLOMA. 



After a thorough study of our Text Book, "Mind Healing 
Condensed," the student of lawful age, who has remitted as 
required, may write answers to the following questions and 
send them to us. On receipt of satisfactory answers to one 
hundred and twenty-five, or more, of the questions, we will 
engross his name in the Diploma, and forward it to him at 
our risk. 

Use ink only, and write plainly. Put down each lesson 
from I. to XII. Number your answers to correspond with 
our questions. Give us brevity. We file and keep your 
answers for reference. 

Any person who studies this Text Book carefully can 
answer all of these questions. Whoever conquers and gains 
the understanding of this condensed work, will be a good 
Mental or Christian Scientist, and will be qualified to heal 
disease. 

Do not neglect this opportunity of legal graduation. Re- 
member that the Chautauqua University, of New York, and 
&bout one dozen other institutions of learning are imparting 
instructions at any distance and graduating students in their 
lines. It is a saving of time and money; it is a legal, popular 
and successful system. 



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Lesson I. 

1. Is God a local, visible personality ever to be seen by 
mortal sight? 

2. Name several of the terms introduced only by Christian 
Science to represent God. 

3. Does this Science endorse Pantheism? 

4. Visible objects are to be regarded as what? 

5. Does physical man possess any life absolutely his own? 

6. Are there in this Science any lives, spirits or souls sepa- 
rate from Spirit or Soul as Omnipresent Life? 

7. Do flesh, blood and bones constitute Spiritual Man? 

8. State the difference between being and existence 
Should existence be applied to anything but visible objects?, 

9. What is the Latin and scientific meaning of exist? 

10. Can we say that God or Spiritual Man exists? Are 
not such being, and invisible? 

11. Should we say God's spirit, God's life, God's being, 
etc? — if not, why? 

12. Can physical man possess either a spirit, a soul, a life 
or an entity separate from God? 

Lesson II. 

1. Do the manifestations, commonly called the real, pos- 
sess Life or entity of themselves? 

2. Can flesh, or any visible object, feel sensation? 

3. In a mirror do >ou behold a reflection of your body, or 
do you behold your body only ? 

4. Which is first, the body or the idea after which the body 
is formed? 

5. After the mortal body has been disintegrated, does the 
idea or entity remain immortal? 

6. While in the state where neither flesh nor blood can 
be, will there be any physical organism? 

7. Will the Ego, the entity, again manifest itself, or come 
forth to the mortal state of individualized identity? 

8. When formations come forth through evolution, and 
disappear through involution, do we not in this analogy find 
the meaning of resurrection as Paul understood it in the XV 
Chap, of I. Cor. ? 

9. Through evolution and involution — or birth and death 
— do we not have proof that our spirit form can never be 
annihilated or become extinct? 

10. After physical dissolution, does not a new body come 
forth through the same natural laws that furnish decaying 
grain with new bodies? 

11. Does the term Spiritual Man mean the physical or- 
ganism? 

12. As Spiritual Man means neither flesh nor blood, but 
means Immortal Mmd, Spirit or Deity, does not this system 
have the true key to immortality? 



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Lesson III. 

1. In this Science, what doeS the term "Being" signify? 

2. Spiritual Scientists hold that "All is Spirit;" Material- 
ists hold that "All is Matter." Which is Correct? 

3. As yisible objects cannot come from "nothing,'* from 
what are' they prodiiceid? " 

4. As Spirit is the intelligence that produces all objects; 
what does it produce them Of? 

5. Is it not logical to say that the primal substance of 
every object is Spirit, since Spirit was first? 

6. Is not every element known in Chemistry resolvable to 
invisibility? 

7. If all elements are formed of Spirit, and if all are re- 
ducible to invisibility, what were they in substance when 
visible? 

8. When a sponge is filled with water, can any atom of it 
be separate from the water? 

9. Can any atom be separate from Spirit; if not, then is 
not Spirit all there is in the universe? 

10. As Spirit or God is everywhere, can anything else be 
anywhere? 

11. If Spirit is not everywhere, by what are atoms placed 
in all formations? 

12. When the Materialist admits order in all the natural 
formations, does he not, in fact, admit our position that God 
or Creative Energy is everywhere? 

Lesson IV. 

1. Does Science intend to compromise with theorists who 
argue separateness of Spirit and matter? 

2. Is it necessary to assert that sense objects are "nothing" ? 

3. Can intelligence use the term "nothing" intelligently? 

4. When physiologists teach that flesh and bones are the 
real, do they not directly support materialism? 

5. Can one be a supporter of materialism and be a con- 
sistent advocate of Spirit in any case? 

6. Does not the theory that God is a personality and vis- 
ible contradict the fact that Deity is omnipresent Spirit? 

7. Why do we deny the being of so called evil? 

8. What are the mental states we call sin, disease, pain, 
etc.? 

9. Are afflictions blessings, or curses? 

10. You regard the claims of mortal mind as what? 

11. How should a Mental Healer begin? 

12. How can a healer fully in the Science control disease 
or mental states of the patient? 

Lesson V. 

1. Do prudence and decorum assist the Healer? 

2. What is it that cures? 



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3. State the best way to remove the work from person to 
Spirit. 

4. What rules a meek or spiritual person? 

5. What modes of mind assist healers? 

6. Name mental states that harm, and states that help the 
patient. 

7. How is the true healer best known? 

8. True diagnosis is through what faculties? 

9. Is it wise to tell patients they have this or that disease? 

10. State how the work of healing is hindered if you ask 
what the disease or symptoms are. 

11. State the advantages of listening when the patient of 
friends prefer to explain. 

12. Through what mental states of the patient is healing 
aided? 

Lesson VI.— The Formula. 

1. Which feels pain, the flesh or the sense mind? 

2. While it is mind only that feels, should we address 
it, or the body? 

3. Does the healer, while treating, talk orally or commu- 
nicate mentally with the patient? 

4. Should the healer argue and contradict, or should he 
affirm mentally to the mind of the patient? 

5 State some of the ideas or thoughts you gather from the 
formula given for silent treatment. 

6. After the treatment, what naturally follows? 

7. Do healers and patients usually exchange pleasing re- 
marks over the treatments? 

8. Does their work bring happiness to the healer as well 
as to the patient? 

9. Is not this relief of mind, this turning unto Truth, to 
be regarded as the woik of Truth, saving the needy and 
erring? 

10. If the healer has time does he explain some of the 
Science to the patients? 

11. What does the healer claim the forces often felt in 
the system during treatment to be? 

12. Are thoughts things, and the real? 

Lesson VII. 

1. What is the further and chief help the patient receives? 

2. On what condition is this healing permanent? 

3. What may fear, anger, pride, selfishness, jealousy, re- 
venge, avarice, malice, etc.. do, if continuously indulged? 

4. Is the patient willing to turn from the use of drugs after 
successful treatment? 

5. While the patient holds to drugs, does this hinder cure? 

6. Is it best to ask the patient to give up drugs, or to treat 
his mind to do so? 



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7. If a patient is conscious of the treatment, is such treat- 
ment mesmeric, or of Truth? 

8. If the patient is not conscious of improvement, is it not 
probable that the healer lacks a proper understanding of the 
Science? 

9. Can correct mental treatment facilitate the cure of a 
broken limb? 

10. Is a broken limb to be regarded as disease proper? 

11. Can a broken limb be treated by a physician so that it 
may progress to a state of disease, or cause disease elsewhere 
in the body? 

12. Is the spirit, or the fleshly body to be regarded as the 
ghost? 

Lesson VIII. 

1. What is the usual time occupied in the treatment 
proper? 

2. Although a formula is given in our Text Book, should we 
use this form, or should we vary as conditions require? 

3. Is it necessary for the healer to follow any set form? 

4. Should we use the same mental words when treating 
all patients? 

5. Does this book profess to give a fair idea for the treat- 
ment of every class of disease? 

6. If an author or teacher were to lay down an exact form- 
ula to be followed, would he not thereby seem to advocate a 
material or intellectual rather than a spiritual method? 

7. Does the Bible show that Jesus contradicted, or did He 
usually affirm to the mind of the patient? 

8. Should Mental Healers ever make physical examina- 
tion? 

9. Why does it hinder successful treatment for the healer 
to make physical examination? 

10. As the cause of disease is mental, is it wise to treat 
physically ? 

11. As we never use drugs or instruments, can it be said 
that we treat physically ? 

12. When we cure scrofula, cancers, flesh wounds, etc., 
by mind only, can it be claimed that we treat with physics or 
surgery ? 

Lesson IX. 

1. Does not this Science always teach that God or Truth is 
the direct means of cure, and that the only part a Mental 
Healer performs is to teach Truth or mentally talk disease 
away? 

2. What distance should the healer sit from the patient? 

3. State why the healer should not sit with his back toward 
the patient. 

4. Should either patient or healer gaze around indfffer- 
ently? 



5. State why healer and patient should sit with eyes closed, 
and the benefits thus derived. 

6. Why does the first visit usually require more time? 

7. When a healer is fully in the Science, what does he 
command? 

8. What special directions should be observed by patient 
and healer to insure success? 

9. State how disease can be forgotten and mastered? 

10. Is it wise or unwise to tell another that he looks 
worse, pale or sick? 

11. Can fear cause the state called death? 

12. What is said about bleeding a person to death without 
drawing a drop of blood? 

Lesson X. 

1. What is said about a patient when fright, anger, etc., 
affect him? 

2. Why does a tooth often cease to ache when on the way 
to the dentist? 

3. What is insanity, and what is said in our Text Book 
about the success of this system with the insane? 

4. Do we claim to cure every kind or class of disease, if 
not every case? 

5. If cure comes by those who use drugs, it is owing to 
what scientific fact? 

6. Every drug given is a mental ministration in what way? 

7. Can the mind of a physician prescribe a remedy super- 
ior to itself? 

8. State the reason why death may result from poison. 
What is it that poisons? 

9. Is a prime cause always invisible? 

10. Is effect found only in visible things? 

11. Cause being invisible, what is said about seeking cure 
through visible remedies? 

12. Is not the invisible, the power that cures? 

Lesson XL 

1. Which lessens disease, to agree with it as physicians 
do, or to ignore it as Christian Scientists do? 

2. What is said about the chemical action of Spirit or 
Truth in healing? 

3. If God is a personality "about the size and shape of a 
mortal man," as many claim, could fle then be in human 
bodies as Jesus taught, or could we as mortals be in Him, as 
Paul teaches? 

4. Is it not idolatry to believe in drugs, or in a personal, 
visible God? 

5. Name one dozen leading allopathic physicians of Europe 
and America, mentioned in our Text Book, who condemn 
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6. Of 1142 practicing graduates in allopathy, how many 
were incompetent to pass the National Examining Board, as 
per Dr. Gihon's report? 

7. What is said about allopathy opposing Bible methods 
of cure ? 

8. If Jesus could appear, would not allopathic colleges re- 
quire him to obtain a medical diploma in order to cure? 

9. Does our system educate the patient to cure himself ? 

10. Are not the heavy bills of physicians avoided by call- 
ing a Mental Healer instead? 

11. What is said about the treatment of children by our 
method? 

12. What is said against the belief that food causes dys- 
pepsia? 

Lesson XII —Special Questions. 

1. Can you accept the science that Deity is the Life or in- 
visible Spirit of the universe? 

2. Do you see that unity with the Father means the insep- 
arable blending with Omnipresent Spirit, and that no reference 
is had to flesh when thinking of our "likeness" of Deity? 

3. Do you see that all the work of reform and the new 
systems of cure mean evidently the establishment of a system 
of religion eminently above the theology of to day? 

4. Can you with our Scientists hold that the "coming" or 
"appearing of Christ" is invisible rather than visible? 

5. Do you accept the scientific, or the theological interpre- 
tation of God, Heaven, the Bible, sin, disease and cure? 

6- In your life and practice are you willing, to avoid all 
that harms? 

7. Do you subscribe to the high moral claims of this 
Science? 

8. Are you willing to continue the study of Mental Chris- 
tian Science works? 

9. We hold it our duty to be charitable toward all, to care 
for the needy, and to minister also to those not able to pay : 
Are you in harmony with this? 

10. Do you feel that you are led of Truth to enter this 
Work; do you desire to alleviate human distress and to aid 
mankind toward health and happiness ?- 

11. Do you comprehend and accept the teachings of our 
Text Book? 

12. Is your faith, in this Science {Strengthening; arcy©^ 
striving to become wiser and better, and may Reform find 
yoa heartily working for mankind? 



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The work "Mind- Healing Condensed," by A. J. Swarts, 
is special. Its first edition, under title "Spiritual Healing 
Formula," was riot offered to any dealer, but was disposed 
of to the interested only as the best Text Book to induct one 
fully, in to the Metaphysical Science. The former edition of 
54 pages was sold to, many investigators of the Science at 
$5.00 per copy, and finally to healers, teachers and students 
for $2.00, but never less. 

I have materially improved this revised edition, yet holdfit 
within its present 70 pages, for its brevity or "conciseness, is its 
value. -It is the Absent Instructor for the Mind Healing 
School which pioneered this Cause in all the West.. TOj 
study this work thoroughly about a half dozen times through, 
will bring anyone into an understanding of the Science. as 
fully as any teacher can impart it orally. 

This edition will riot be given out to dealers, but will be 
continued as the Instruction Book of the •Spiritual Science 
University, whose 13oard of efficient Directors— four , of 
them teachers of the Science —have adopted it as the standard 
or medium, through which it imparts its system of Non^Rese- 

dent Instructions at any distance; even in Europe, l^nis 
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is the only School chartered by any State;, to^gra&uatite ab- 
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nois expressly authorizes us to teach Absently and to confer 
degrees- This we have done upon nearly one thousand stu- 
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legal Diploma to those we instruct at the distance, as well as 
when present. 

Those who would take this Course, must thoroughly study 
"Mind Healing Condensed;" then write Lesson I, and the 
twelve numbers, in the same manner we have. They should 
Dot write our questions, but they will write their answers to 
each instead, and continue thus from Lesson I to Lesson XII. 
If they come into the ideas of the book, and send answers 
as stated elsewhere, it will entitle them to graduation and 
the Diploma, beautifully engraved and in two colors, with 
their name nicely engrossed in it. Ten dollars are required for 
graduation complete, which includes the book and Diploma. 

The book will be held at $2.00, but when obtained by any- 
one for perusal, he shall, upon sending in answers as above, 
and the balance, $8.00, receive the Diploma. The degree im- 
parted by this Diploma is S. S. D., which means Doctor of 
Spiritual Science, and entitles its possessor to affix the form 
Dr. to his or her name, and we will defend all of our graduates 
in the use of the same. A. J. Swarts, Ph.D. 

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